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Prescott in the running

Lord Prescott will be among the Labour candidates to become an elected police commissionerTimes photographer, Paul Rogers

Seven former Labour ministers are to fight to win lucrative jobs as directly elected police commissioners.

Lord Prescott will be among the Labour candidates in the running for the newly created posts when the first elections take place in November. The former Deputy Prime Minister is standing in Humberside.

The party released its full list of 41 candidates for the posts yesterday, despite being opposed to the creation of the new jobs, which can be taken up on a part-time basis and come with an annual salary of up to £100,000.

Other former ministers lining up beside Lord Prescott are Vera Baird, the former solicitor general, Tony Lloyd, the former Foreign Office minister, and James Plaskitt, a former Work and Pensions minister.